Despite being in one of the at-risk age groups, Clint Eastwood is not letting a little thing like the thread of a worldwide pandemic stop him from getting back to work on his next film. Though Warner Bros. has yet to offer up a greenlight, Cry Macho is clearly moving ahead, since Deadline reports that Eastwood has begun scouting locations.
The film will star Eastwood as a onetime rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who, in 1978, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man’s young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. Crossing rural Mexico on their back way to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman may find his own sense of redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
Novelist Richard Nash is adapting his own book alongside penned the script alongside Gran Torino and The Mule writer Nick Schenk. There's no official date for a shoot yet, but Eastwood is obviously looking to get moving as soon as possible, and you know he'll want to shoot quickly.